Can anyone tell who or what pawson & brailsford are?

i have found an old scrapbook sort of thing. it has rhymes & verses wrote in by different people from pawson & brailsfords. the dates range from 1913 to 1922. the verses are wrote by different people they have all signed the verses they wrote. there is a couple of wonderful drawings too.
here are some of the names
annie blades of darnall. ethel dungworth, lilian smith, ernest pegg, winnie couldwell

They were a Sheffield publishers and stationers active in Victorian times and into the 20th century. Their shop was in the red brick building next to the cathedral and opposite Boots.

Their shop is the one with the awning on it - http://www.picturesheffield.com/cgi-bin/picturesheffield.pl?_cgifunction=form&_layout=picturesheffield&keyval=sheff.refno=s04520

Pawson & Brailsford were Printers and Stationers and I believe they also had premises somewhere near the bottom of Norfolk Street in the 1950s.

Weren't they on Campo Lane at one time? I recall their selling Government documents for licences/permits etc. Didn't it became Oyez stationery or something like that?

I'm sure that shop with the awning was a bank in the 60's.

When I was a lad in the late 1950's Pawson & Brailsford was on the bottom (west side) of Holly Street ( which runs south off West Street) opposite the end of Orchard Lane , behind the City Hall.
I went in there a lot with my Uncle.

I'm sure that shop with the awning was a bank in the 60's.

Yes....but the photo is dated 1900 :)

P&B's most familiar work is the Illustrated Guide to Sheffield and Neighbourhood.

First published in 1862 it was reprinted in hardback facsimile in 1971 and in paperback in 1985. A useful source for Sheffield's local history.

Their main activity as publishers were the trade catalogues they produced for Sheffield manufacturers, especially for cutlery, tools and general engineering products.

They also dabbled in cartography, producing a couple of Sheffield city maps c.1880 and published three directories for Sheffield in 1895, 1896 and 1900.

in this book i have there is 3 illustrations an ink drawing of a turk by j.c baker 1920, a coloured drawing of a little girl by gladys roberts 1922 & a pencil sketch of lloyd george & clemenceau called two great little men geo staton 1919.

Pawson & Brailsford were Printers and Stationers and I believe they also had premises somewhere near the bottom of Norfolk Street in the 1950s.

Yes - also in the 1960s they were in Norfolk Street, on the corner of Mulberry Street. The 1925 directory lists these addresses for Pawson & Brailsford:

Britannia Printing Works, Mulberry Street
Norfolk Street
1 St Paul's Parade
11 York Street

They were described in 1925 as "printers, lithographers, bookbinders, account book manufacturers, stationers, engravers, photographers & process block etchers, depot for Milner's safes, the Monarch typewriter, Government agents by special appointment for the sale of Ordnance Survey maps".

I'm sure that shop with the awning was a bank in the 60's.

Quite right, skippy - it is No 1 High Street which in the early 1900s was Pawson & Brailsfords, but by the 1920s they had moved round the corner into York Street. A branch of the National Provincial Bank opened at No 1 High Street at about the time ofthe First World War. In the 1930s the branch was extended to the corner of York Street, having taken over the adjacent branch of the Midland Bank. This large bank remained until the late 1970s when (by now the National Westminster) it closed and the business was transferred to the NatWest branch at 42 High Street.

In case it's of interest, a brief look on various websites unearthed some information about the firm's founders Henry Pawson and Joseph Brailsford.

Henry Pawson was born in 1820 in Wakefield, the son of George Pawson, a Sheffield-born "music seller" and his wife Mary. By the 1850s he was a reporter with the weekly Sheffield Times, but a decade later he became established in printing and publishing, in partnership with Joseph Brailsford. The firm prospered, and Henry was able to retire by the time he reached his late 50s. His son Alfred did not apparently enter the family firm, but worked as a representative for a steel company. Henry's Sheffield-born wife Maria died aged 57 in 1895. By the time of the 1901 census Henry was described as a "retired master printer and publisher" living in Oak Hill Road, Nether Edge. He may not have been in good health, for among his four female servants were two "sick nurses". Henry died aged 87 in 1907.

Joseph Brailsford was born in Sheffield in 1825. By the time of the 1871 census he was a "master printer & stationer employing 89 workpeople in various departments of business". He lived most of his life in Endcliffe Crescent with his wife Emma, daughter Kate and a bevy of servants. By 1881 he had retired, and was described in census returns as a "retired printer & stationery manufacturer". He died aged 66 in the last quarter of 1891. Emma moved to Bridlington and died there in 1900, aged 73.